My Getting Started Thread - Help!

[Weekapaug]

My suggestion is to start over doing this:

Install a fresh Titanium install. Before doing anything make a copy of the entire directory and set it aside in case you have to start over.

Then go through the steps in the "getting started" thread rather than using the patcher....there is a link on the main page on the left menu bar. In that thread there will be a link to the current spell files and will give specific instructions on what to do for each step. Just follow the instructions as listed in order.

Also in that thread there will be a link for WinEQ2. Download and install that. Launch it and configure for p99. If memory serves, all you have to do is point it to the EQ directory. Then have winew2 generate a desktop launch icon. use this for launching p99 not the normal one.

That should fix your problem. A lot of newer systems conflict with this older software but wineq seems to fix it. You will have to play in a window but you can maximize it so you hardly notice. And its handy to be able to tab over to a browser page with the wiki and forums up while playing.

If you get this far and everything is running, you can copy over your old inis and UI files if you still have them.

For whatever reasons I was able to play fullscreen using just the client a few years ago but have had to use the wineq workaround for about the last 2. Haven't had a single problem since, though.

[bOONDOGGLE]

Hey man, i've only started playing Project 1999 a few weeks back and I had a whole lot of trouble trying to install everything manually.

I got pretty much every error you mention (spells out of date, error when going fullscreen, etc.)

What you need to do is look up Duxa's Project 1999 Installer.

Basically you can select from a ton of different options for what type of setup you want (old music vs new music, etc etc) and it changes all of the appropriate files for you.

All you need is to download Titanium then run the Installer. The good thing is not only does it setup everything for you, but you can just run it again if you want to change the settings (you don't have to uninstall the game).

Duxa's Installer will automatically install the EQ Emu Launcher which is an application to help you connect to the Project 1999 servers. The main benefit of this is that it will automatically check your files and update whichever ones are out of date (that's how I got past the spell files error - since the manual download locations are no longer up).

As for the full screen issue: When you run Duxa's Installer it will ask you if you want to play in windowed or fullscreen mode. Select full screen and it will then automatically run in a fullscreen windowed mode (as in, it is still technically windowed, but the window is the size of the screen). For some reason I cannot get Project 1999 to run in actual full screen mode without the error.

Let me know how this helps and what other questions you have (like I said, I ran into pretty much every error in the book).

Also what is your character's name? I'll look you up.

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